What does AA v BB tell us about the treatment of domestic abuse since Re H-N?

by Malvika Jaganmohan | Aug 10, 2021 | Analysis, Cases, Comment, FCReportingWatch

What does AA v BB tell us about the treatment of domestic abuse since Re H-N? Since the Court of Appeal judgment in Re H-N [2021] EWCA Civ 448 which was handed down earlier this year, we’re starting to see more and more published cases concerning domestic abuse in...

Setting aside a financial remedy consent order in Covid pandemic times: HW & WW(2021) EWFC B20

by reporting watch team | Aug 6, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is post by Elizabeth Wark. Elizabeth is a barrister at Three Doctor Johnson’s Buildings specialising in civil and family law. She tweets as @ElizabethWark7 The Covid pandemic has profoundly affected lives and livelihoods. This blog explains a family court...

The Future of Legal Aid or the Future of Family Law?

by Guest Post | Aug 5, 2021 | Comment, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post by Dr Jess Mant, Lecturer in Law at Cardiff University School of Law and Politics. Jess has been researching the impact of LASPO on domestic abuse cases in family courts for the last ten years. Her evidence to this recent parliamentary inquiry can...

Family arbitration : It’s arbitration, but not as we know it.

by Guest Post | Jul 30, 2021 | Cases, Explanation, FCReportingWatch

This is a guest post from Rhys Taylor, The 36 Group. Barrister, Arbitrator, Mediator. Rhys tweets as @RhysTaylor32 and is co-editor of www.familyarbitrator.com.  A plea to stay with me I will admit that if I were not a family lawyer, I probably would not be bothered...

Minister for Justice thanks The Transparency Project

by Julie Doughty | Jul 29, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging

Recently, we noticed there had been a Parliamentary Question about family courts on 7 June, from Robert Halfon MP, as follows: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what steps his Department is taking to improve transparency in the Family Court process....

If you don’t like the rules, change ’em

by reporting watch team | Jul 27, 2021 | FCReportingWatch, Legal blogging, Transparency News

In 2017 we asked the Family Procedure Rule Committee to consider temporarily amending the Family Procedure Rules by way of a temporary pilot scheme to test out allowing ‘legal bloggers’ into family court hearings, alongside journalists (they have been...